etherizern.

1854 J. Wright Nat. Capabilities of Man 5/2 Contemplate this prominently pre-eminent case, ye chloroformists and etherizers!

1864 Dental Cosmos 5 251 It is indispensable that a competent etherizer should possess an accurate anatomical knowledge of the parts which he is endeavoring to impress.

1899 N. Amer. Jrnl. Homœopathy 14 507 Sufficient attention is not always given to the importance of an expert ætherizer, which is next to that of the operator himself.

1910 J. G. Mumford Pract. Surg. v. 535 The child, tightly swathed in a sheet, should be held upright in the arms of an attendant, behind whose shoulder stands the etherizer with his cone.

1986 Amer. Jrnl. Surg. 152 247/1 Etherizers used cones or masks to provide a mixture of ether and room air.

2010 Jrnl. Amer. Coll. Surgeons 211 427/2 He was also an ‘etherizer’, being adept in the use of that safer agent.

1866 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 7 Apr. 370/1 The results were still more satisfactory in division of the tendo Achillis, particularly in one case where etherisation on both sides was applied with two separate etherisers, so that the whole of the skin covering the tendon on each side was blanched.

1887 Columbus Med. Jrnl. 5 282 Dr. D. E. Keefe..has devised a new etherizer.

1913 Lancet 16 Aug. 508/2 An extremely simple apparatus which..possesses the safeguards essential to every intratracheal etheriser—viz., a mercury pressure valve and a manometer.

1950 W. P. Spencer in E. J. Farris Care & Breeding Lab. Animals xv. 465 With this etherizer flies are clearly visible in the capsule, and overetherization may be avoided with reasonable care.

2007 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 104 11515/3 ‘I had a dissecting microscope, an etherizer, and a paintbrush,’ says Ganetzky.